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Category: Prizes

Details of WHN prizes and entries

Book Prize, Events, Events, Prizes, Seminars

29th September: Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 15, 2021

Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prQVp-K7QxK988C0v1zBpw Join us for this exciting talk from the 2021 Women’s History Network…

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Women’s History Network 2021 Community History Prize Winners: Friends of the Factories

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 8, 2021

‘Honouring the Shirt Factory Workers’ Friends of the Factories Plaque Initiative in Solidarity with Derry Trades Union Council The Friends of the Factory Workers scheme was the winner of the Women’s History Network Community History Prize in 2021. This project…

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Women’s History Network Book Prize 2021: Chair’s Report

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 4, 2021

  This year eight books were submitted for the Women’s History Network book prize. It was a wonderful set of entries: every book was of a high academic standard, every book was well researched, every book made an original contribution…

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WHN Prize Winners 2021

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 3, 2021

Front cover of Zoë Thomas’s prize-winning monograph Following the Women’s History Network’s Annual General Meeting, and our recent appointment of this year’s early career and independent fellows, we are pleased to announce another set of prize winners and award recipients.…

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Blog and News, ECR Independent Conferences, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

WHN Independent Researcher Awards 2021/22

Dr Anna Muggeridge / September 2, 2021

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce four new Independent Researcher grants for the coming academic year. The grants provide financial support to those working on women’s history outside of academia. Full details of their projects are as follows:…

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Prizes, Schools History Prize, Schools History Prize Winners

WHN Schools History Prize 2021 – Prizewinners

WHN / September 1, 2021

Tahaney Alghrani  School’s Liaison Officer  This year we challenged the students to create a poster which illustrates one of two themes: Extraordinary women working for today and tomorrow. Heroines who have made an impact locally, nationally or internationally in the past…

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Blog and News, Dissertation Prize, Prizes

WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2021

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 27, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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Blog and News, ECR Independent Conferences, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

WHN Early Career Fellows 2021/22

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 24, 2021

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the appointment of four new Early Career Fellows for the coming academic year. The Fellowships provide scholars with a bursary of £1,500 and are designed to support exciting and innovative research into…

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Female Petitioning to Monarchs and the Criminal Process in England, 1660-1702 by Emily Rhodes

Dr. Kate Law / June 21, 2021

In browsing the English State Papers in the National Archives at Kew or the State Papers Online database, one of the most common types of documents you will encounter are petitions to the crown. Within this subset of records, there…

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